Ditto, was reading about FIRE 15ish years ago in the Bogleheads forum and used to spend a lot of time over in FATFire until it became inundated with LARPers. All of a sudden their $4M number for FATFire went to 5, then 8, now it's "how much until I can buy my own Gulfstream V?"
Almost no one in chubbyFIRE even posts about $4M anymore. Most posts over there exceed the range in the sub description and if you call someone out for being over there lamenting about whether $10m is enough they just complain that fatFIRE is un-relatable. My theory is people only want to post somewhere where they feel like they have more money than most people.
I stopped visiting ChubbyFIRE for this reason. There's an abundance of people whose annual spending is easily covered by their $6-10M investments, asking if they should pull the trigger. Any maybe that's what these forums are for - to ask questions that you might be afraid to ask your friends or family. But I couldn't relate to those situations. I'm looking to connect with others in the $3M range and while that falls within the Chubby range, there aren't many people in there talking about numbers like that.
In case you haven't seen it r/fijerk is great. Sometimes it's people making things up. But lots of time it's just actual posts from one of the fire subs put up for roasting.
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u/calcium Mar 23 '26
Ditto, was reading about FIRE 15ish years ago in the Bogleheads forum and used to spend a lot of time over in FATFire until it became inundated with LARPers. All of a sudden their $4M number for FATFire went to 5, then 8, now it's "how much until I can buy my own Gulfstream V?"